Director of Dental Services

Title: Director of Dental Services

State Role Title: 49115

Hiring Range: Salary to Commensurate with experience

Pay Band: 7

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Hiram Davis Medical Center

Agency Website: hwdmc.dbhds.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Supports staff in reaching their optimum performance, as well as assisting staff in further developing their professional skills, including:
• Communicates expectations of staff clearly and relates them to the goals and objectives of the department or unit.
• Ensures staff has the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish goals.
• Ensures that the requirements of the performance planning and evaluation system are met, and evaluations are completed by established deadlines with proper documentation.
• Addresses and documents any performance, behavior, and attendance issues as they occur.
• Ensures safety issues are reviewed and communicated to maintain a safe and healthy workplace resulting in a reduction in work related injuries.
• Completes DBHDS MVP courses in the Knowledge Center within (1) year of their start date.
• Ensures compliance with facility competencies and training requirements as documented by training/competency records.
• Adheres to and ensures staff adherence to the DHRM Civility Policy.
• Ensures staff members receive frequent, constructive feedback, recognition, including documented regular supervisory sessions and interim evaluations as appropriate and in keeping with the Hiram W. Davis Medical Center values
• Ensures interdepartmental collaboration to support staff retention and satisfaction.
• Practices progressive discipline
• Assists in the development of staffing patterns appropriate to the delivery of care for assigned departments
Direct the dental department and provides dental treatments
• Directs and provides dental treatment to individuals of CSH, HWDMC and those referred from other DBHDS facilities as well as those Intellectual Disability patients from the community.
• Provides all phases of general dentistry at or above the standard of care.
• Provides dental awareness to patients
• Develops strategic plans and department goals for the future i.e. establishing and maintaining a relationship with VCU School of Dentistry and/or private sector for consultations/treatment of difficult cases/peer review as needed and incorporating community services to the department mission.
• Keeps complete and accurate dental records with good documentation.
• Ensures adequate follows-up and continuity of care
• Assigns and evaluates the work of the dental team
• Ensures the completion of required narrative, statical, and fiscal reports and responsibilities.
• Establishes practice standards for the dental staff
• Ensures that departmental policies and procedures are being carried out by the dental team
• Works collaboratively with the Medical staff in clinical matter of concerns.
• Develops process to improve dental hygiene care.
• Submit dental discharge summaries timely.
Administrative Duties:
• Provides supervision of the dental department, i.e. administrative and operational fundtions to achieve high quality patient care delivery, assessing work performance, and assuring the full integration of that department into the lcinical work of the medical center.
• Implementation of dentist review involving disciplinary actions, peer review, assessing staff competencies and evaluating work performance.
• Development and revision of work procedures to expedite improved levels of delivery of services to patients.
• Manages the budgets of the dental department
• Responsible for recruitment, selection and orientation of dental staff.
• Application of the Standards of Conduct when necessary
• Serves as a professional role model for the dental staff
• Participates in department head meetings
• Uses resources efficiently to achieve department/facility objectives
Formulates dental program policies:
For those patients receiving dental treatment under general anesthesia and conscious sedation, responsibilities include:
• Timely submission of patient schedule
• Acceptable performance in writing pre-op orders
• Ensures record of treatment, discharge/transfer orders and consultation with attending physicians (as needed) are completed
• Ensures dental surgical case review form is completed after each treatment
• Ensures AR is informed if treatment is cancelled
Provides dental treatment to